[tedd4u]

Tip for tracerouters ... use mtr instead

brew install mtr

Try tapping 'd' twice to enable a stripchart

? for help

                             My traceroute  [v0.95]
  xxxxxxxx.local (172.16.0.2) -> news.ycombinator.com (50.1122022-07-27T23:37
  Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit
                                     Packets               Pings
   Host                            Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
   1. 172.16.0.1                    0.0%    14   15.4  17.6  14.1  20.5   2.2
   2. (waiting for reply)
   3. 162.158.164.5                14.3%    14   34.4  71.1  16.5 145.4  47.3
   4. 198.41.160.6                  0.0%    14   32.9  36.0  30.2  43.9   3.4
   5. 198.41.140.95                 0.0%    14   61.9  45.0  35.3  64.7   9.8
   6. 99.83.70.192                  0.0%    14   40.7  36.7  33.1  49.6   4.4
   7. 150.222.214.101               0.0%    14   36.6  41.3  34.7  58.1   6.2
   8. 52.95.52.29                   0.0%    14   41.6  40.0  35.1  51.1   4.2
   9. (waiting for reply)

[Aachen]

Yeah I tried mtr again recently. After maybe 30 seconds of working fine, it'll exit with an error like "no route to host" (even though it was getting responses before). Yeah, packet loss is exactly why I'm opening mtr: to see where on the path it occurs... how in the world does that make it crash

[oakwhiz]

I was under the impression that this issue had been fixed years prior.

[layer8]

There’s also WinMTR for Windows: https://github.com/White-Tiger/WinMTR

[TwoNineFive]

Sadly WinMTR does not work properly anymore and is long abandoned.

The best alternative is a commercial product called PingPlotterPro. You can use it for free during a trial period.

Networking people generally don't use Windows much for troubleshooting. Windows networking behavior causes all kinds of problems and nobody wants to deal with that shit.

[voltagex_]

Last updated 9 years ago.

[layer8]

Windows has great backwards compatibility, so it still works like a charm.

[michaelmcdonald]

That's not accurate:

https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

> Merge pull request #412 from 23hiro/master … 327dd3f 11 days ago

[voltagex_]

That's the Linux version, not WinMTR.

[neilv]

    sudo apt install mtr-tiny

[sim7c00]

why?

[tedd4u]

Sorry, I should have said!

  • See the whole path fast - don't wait on one unresponsive hop to see "deeper" hosts
  • Run ongoing traces to get path quality (per-hop packet drop & latency min/max/avg)
  • Optional jitter statistics
  • Color "strip chart" view (press 'd' twice)
  • Drawback: need sudo, unlike trace route